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Records of Garfield Lodge No. 19, Order of the Shepherds of Bethlehem

RG-019

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held
at the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library. Unless
otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our
reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

The Garfield Lodge No. 19 was a women's auxilliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. The Records of Garfield
Lodge No. 19, Order of the Shepards of Bethlehem, 1899-1917, consist of four volumes of minutes of the lodge.

Biography/History

The Order of Shepherds of Bethlehem was a women's auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. A meeting at the
Anna Camp?s building at Girard and Hutchinson organized October 30, 1899. The camp was instituted at the hall of Star of the
East Lodge No. 2, Order of Shepherds of Bethlehem, by the WG Commander Lady Eva Wyckoff with approximately 60 charter members.

Sponsor

This preliminary finding aid was created by staff of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania?s Hidden Collections Initiative
for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) using data provided by the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum
and Library. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Access Restrictions

Contact the Grand Army of the Republic Museum and Library for information about accessing collection.

Processing Information note

The records were rough sorted and placed in archival boxes by board members and volunteers of the GAR Civil War Museum & Library
in 2008. In 2009-2010 they received preliminary processing by Archival Consultant Jack McCarthy and Intern Megan Atkinson,
working on a project funded by grants from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and National Endowment for the
Humanities. This finding aid is the result of that project. The grant funds allowed for only minimal processing and very little
re-housing of the records; as noted above, the records require more thorough processing.

The finding aid created by McCarthy and Atkinson was converted to the EAD format in 2011-2012 as part of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania?s Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR), funded by a grant
from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.